scholarly journals On the mean Euler characteristic of contact manifolds

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1450046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Espina

We express the mean Euler characteristic (MEC) of a contact structure in terms of the mean indices of closed Reeb orbits for a broad class of contact manifolds, the so-called asymptotically finite contact manifolds. We show that this class is closed under subcritical contact surgery and examine the behavior of the MEC under such surgery. To this end, we revisit the notion of index-positivity for contact forms. We also obtain an expression for the MEC in the Morse–Bott case.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 4465-4495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Abreu ◽  
Leonardo Macarini

Abstract We prove that the mean Euler characteristic of a Gorenstein toric contact manifold, that is, a good toric contact manifold with zero 1st Chern class, is equal to half the normalized volume of the corresponding toric diagram and give some applications. A particularly interesting one, obtained using a result of Batyrev and Dais, is the following: twice the mean Euler characteristic of a Gorenstein toric contact manifold is equal to the Euler characteristic of any crepant toric symplectic filling, that is, any toric symplectic filling with zero 1st Chern class.


Author(s):  
David E. Blair

SynopsisClassically the tangent sphere bundles have formed a large class of contact manifolds; their contact structures are not in general regular, however. Specifically we prove that the natural contact structure on the tangent sphere bundle of a compact Riemannian manifold of non-positive constant curvature is not regular.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-725
Author(s):  
Julie Fournier

Abstract A deterministic application θ:ℝ2→ℝ2 deforms bijectively and regularly the plane and allows the construction of a deformed random field X∘θ:ℝ2→ℝ from a regular, stationary, and isotropic random field X:ℝ2→ℝ. The deformed field X∘θ is, in general, not isotropic (and not even stationary), however, we provide an explicit characterization of the deformations θ that preserve the isotropy. Further assuming that X is Gaussian, we introduce a weak form of isotropy of the field X∘θ, defined by an invariance property of the mean Euler characteristic of some of its excursion sets. We prove that deformed fields satisfying this property are strictly isotropic. In addition, we are able to identify θ, assuming that the mean Euler characteristic of excursion sets of X∘θ over some basic domain is known.


2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
River Chiang ◽  
Fan Ding ◽  
Otto van Koert

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 371-418
Author(s):  
Youngjin Bae ◽  
Kevin Wiegand ◽  
Kai Zehmisch

We prove that certain non-exact magnetic Hamiltonian systems on products of closed hyperbolic surfaces and with a potential function of large oscillation admit non-constant contractible periodic solutions of energy below the Mañé critical value. For that we develop a theory of holomorphic curves in symplectizations of non-compact contact manifolds that arise as the covering space of a virtually contact structure whose contact form is bounded with all derivatives up to order three.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1550045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohiko Kasuya

We prove that a closed co-oriented contact (2m + 1)-manifold (M2m + 1, ξ) can be a contact submanifold of the standard contact structure on ℝ4m + 1, if it satisfies one of the following conditions: (1) m is odd (m ≥ 3) and H1(M2m + 1; ℤ) = 0, (2) m is even (m ≥ 4) and M2m + 1 is 2-connected, (3) m = 2 and M5 is simply-connected.


1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Duggal

A new class of contact manifolds (carring a global non-vanishing timelike vector field) is introduced to establish a relation between spacetime manifolds and contact structures. We show that odd dimensional strongly causal (in particular, globally hyperbolic) spacetimes can carry a regular contact structure. As examples, we present a causal spacetime with a non regular contact structure and a physical model [Gödel Universe] of Homogeneous contact manifold. Finally, we construct a model of 4-dimensional spacetime of general relativity as a contact CR-submanifold.


2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 453-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor L. Ginzburg ◽  
Yusuf Gören

The aim of the paper is three-fold. We begin by proving a formula, both global and local versions, relating the number of periodic orbits of an iterated map and the Lefschetz numbers, or indices in the local case, of its iterations. This formula is then used to express the mean Euler characteristic (MEC) of a contact manifold in terms of local, purely topological, invariants of closed Reeb orbits, without any non-degeneracy assumption on the orbits. Finally, turning to applications of the local MEC formula to dynamics, we use it to reprove a theorem asserting the existence of at least two closed Reeb orbits on the standard contact S3 (by Cristofaro–Gardiner and Hutchings in the most general form) and the existence of at least two closed geodesics for a Finsler metric on S2 (Bangert and Long).


1983 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Srivastava ◽  
H. S. Jhajj

For estimating the mean of a finite population, Srivastava and Jhajj (1981) defined a broad class of estimators which we information of the sample mean as well as the sample variance of an auxiliary variable. In this paper we extend this class of estimators to the case when such information on p(> 1) auxiliary variables is available. The estimators of the class involve unknown constants whose optimum values depend on unknown population parameters. When these population parameters are replaced by their consistent estimates, the resulting estimators are shown to have the same asymptotic mean squared error. An expression by which the mean squared error of such estimators is smaller than those which use only the population means of the auxiliary variables, is obtained.


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